Tweet Why do we need historians of science and medicine? Historians tell stories, often commercially published books. I found a bit of open history tonight, almost 13 years old. More than a dozen years ago, 1999, there was no NIH Public Access Policy. PLoS was an idea being tossed around. BioMed Central had not launched. [...]

Tweet I know how this appears to be an oxymoron. Can research not published yet be considered for open access, a term associated with a form of publishing? Read on….. It’s really a taxpayer access issue. Imagine you paid for something and were still waiting more than 30 months to receive it? 50 months? [...]

Tweet After doing a slow burn about a significant library science teaching article from the BMJ-owned Postgraduate Medical Journal and probably never getting it in PubMedCentral, I found my way back to the main page of BMJ and saw, I thought, something to credit as accellerating open access: “The BMJ (Impact Factor 13.66) provides open access [...]

Tweet I noticed in a tweet of a Research Information posting about Elsevier’s new peer-review experiment for Chemical Physics Letters called PeerChoice. On the scale of news, PeerChoice is a murmur. Reviewers for one journal will now have the freedom to choose which articles they would like to review, hopefully matching their expertise and interest, [...]